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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India is written by Edgar Thurston, a Physician and Lecturer of anatomy. He has written many books on anthropology and ethnography including "Pearl and Chank Fisberies of the Gulf of Manaar" and "Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills : and of the Bráhmans, Kammálans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madr..

Malay Magic

Malay Magic

by Walter W. Skeat

Malay Magic is a folklore work written by the English philologist Walter William Skeat and one of the active personalities for introducing English as higher education subject in United Kingdom.  His published works on Etymology, lexicography, and place-name studies include A Concise Dictionary of Middle English, The place-names of Ca..

The Coming of the Fairies

The Coming of the Fairies

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Coming of the Fairies is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This nar..

The dawn of astronomy

The dawn of astronomy

by Sir Norman Lockyer

The enormous advance which has been recently made in our astronomical knowledge, and in our power of investigating the various bodies which people space, is to a very great extent due to the introduction of methods of work and ideas from other branches of science. Much of the recent progress has been, we may indeed say, entirely dependent upon the ..

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion -  A Study in Survivals

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion - A Study in Survivals

by John Cuthbert Lawson

This book is the outcome of work undertaken in Greece during my two years’ tenure of the Craven Studentship from 1898 to 1900. It is therefore my first duty gratefully to commemorate John, Lord Craven, to whose benefactions of two and a half centuries ago I owed my opportunity for research.The scheme of work originally proposed was the investigatio..

At the Emperor's Wish -  A Tale of the New Japan

At the Emperor's Wish - A Tale of the New Japan

by Oscar K. Davis

Far out toward the end of Lower Timber Street, where incurious visitors to the city seldom stray, stands the house of Kudo Jukichi. It is called Lower Timber Street, the Upper end being down in the city where once the stout castle of the Lord of the Clan was the center of all the life of the place. But the name is falsely descriptive, for it leads ..

Stories and Story-telling

Stories and Story-telling

by Angela M. Keyes

All the stories in this book have been tested with children. Favorites easily available in other collections have been omitted. The seventy-five or more very short stories, intended to help young children to express their observations, experiences, and fancies, have been included at the request of many teachers. he story will give pleasure. Ed..

Hawaiian Historical Legends

Hawaiian Historical Legends

by W. D. Westervelt

From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. This outline is thoroughly Hawaiian in the method of presentation. The old people rehearsed stories depending upon stories told before. They cared very little for dates. This is ..